Flegetonte
HD 102195 · HIP 57370
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 8.07 mag
- Parallax
- 33.74 mas → about 96.7 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K0
- Surface temperature
- 5,301 K
- Right ascension
- 176.4262°
- Declination
- 2.8215°
- Designation
- HD 102195
- HIP number
- 57370
- IAU name adopted
- 2019-12-17
- Name language
- Italian
- Name origin (IAU)
- Flegetonte is the underworld river of fire from Greek Mythology in the Italian narrative poem on the afterlife "Divina Commedia" (Divine Commedy) by Dante Alighieri, chosen as an allusion to the star's fiery nature.
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗ESA Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA Gaia Archive) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗
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In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 97 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1929 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 8.1 it is fainter than the naked-eye limit (about 6) — you need binoculars or a telescope.
- Declination 2.8° — it rises above the horizon in Seoul (37.6° N), so it is visible from Korea in the right season.
Worked out from this object's official values.